Executive Summary

Summary
Title New maildrop packages fix arbitrary group mail command execution
Informations
Name DSA-791 First vendor Publication 2005-08-30
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2005-08-30
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Max Vozeler discoveredt hat the lockmail program from maildrop, a simple mail delivery agent with filtering abilities, does not drop group privileges before executing commands given on the commandline, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands under with group mail privileges.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.3-1.1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.3-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your maildrop package.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-791

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 44

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 791-1 (maildrop)
File : nvt/deb_791_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
19083 maildrop lockmail Privileged Local Command Execution

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2005-09-06 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-791.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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